LACE and VOLUME present the Resonant Forms Festival for three days from April 3 through 5. The festival will present unique performances and installations by pioneers in the emergent fields of experimental electronic music, live cinema, and sound art.

While artists have been working at the crossroads of visual and sound arts for decades, recently this work has experienced a resurgence as technological developments have allowed greater fluidity across artistic media and genres. The artists featured in this festival represent varied approaches to the interplay of artistic mediums, and take risks not frequently observed in traditional creative modalities.

Resonant Forms will premiere Sheepwoman, a new live cinema performance piece by SUE-C. and Laetitia Sonami, commissioned by LACE. The festival will also feature performances by William Basinski, Richard Chartier, Christopher Willits, Kadet Kuhne, Lucky Dragons, Yann Novak, and Celer, installations by David Kwan, Mark Trayle, and ArtSpa hosted by Adam Overton. Each of these artists traverses the territory between visual art, music, and sound through varied disciplines including sound manipulation, soundtrack generation, digital media, computer-generated visuals, aural landscapes, and animation.

Currently, these artists, their work, and this nascent genre are not being promoted through visual or performing arts organizations in the United States. A goal of the festival is to also cultivate a deeper understanding and appreciation of this work through panel discussions and workshops, where lively dialogue between composer and audience is encouraged. Resonant Forms participates in the same cultural conversation as Mutek Festival (Montreal), Transmediale (Berlin), and Ars Electronica (Linz).


Friday April 3

7:00pm              Panel discussion with William Basinski, Kadet Kuhne, Mark Trayle, and David Kwan
8:30pm              Sheepwoman premiere performance

Saturday April 4

3:00pm              Workshop with Christopher Willits
6:00pm              Celer
6:45pm              Kadet Kuhn
7:30pm              Christopher Willits
8:15pm              Lucky Dragons
9:00pm              Sheepwoman ...

Recent and Rarely Seen Explicit Videos from Southern California Artists
debuted at Lust 4 LACE

This bold collection of explicit videos explores issues of the perverse and provocative, challenging many preconceptions about sexuality and desire. Whether focusing on intimacy, the sex act itself or a sense of playfulness - these unabashed explorations of the human condition transcend gender and go beyond the purely pornographic. As a whole, the explicit nature of these works is more about stripping away layers of convention, rather than just clothing.

Featuring brand new and rarely seen explicit videos and performances from Southern California artists including: Buck Angel, Skip Arnold, Jordan Biren, Squeaky Blonde, David Burns, Peter Caine, Franco Castilla, Mark B. Chamness, Charong Chow, Jennifer Cohen, Geoff Cordner, Michael Dee, Dino Dinco, Willia Drew, Zachary Drucker, Martin Durazo, Micol Hebron, Tyler Hubby, Bryan Jackson, Kadet Kuhne, Darin Klein, Lauren Lavitt, Matt Lipps, Selene Luna, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Eon McKai, Julie Orser, Julianna (JP) Parr, Kathryne Layne Paxton, Barry Pett, Eva Posey, Dustin Robertson, Margie Schnibbe, Mark Cosmo Segurson, Thairin Smothers, Vena Virago, Austin Young, Carlos Zamora, and more.

Organized by David Burns and Margie Schnibbe, BUMP was inspired by a series of explicit video programs organized by Bruce Yonemoto in the early 1980’s.

LACE'S INFAMOUS VALENTINE'S DAY PARTY IS BACK!

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions celebrated the grand tradition of VALENTINE's day from years past with, good friends, random lovers, and strangers and to kick off our 30th anniversary in style!

Organized by artists David Burns and Margie Schnibbe (aka Vena Virago) with Peter Bolton & Carla Hart, Franco Castilla, Lenora Claire, Chad Clark, Robert Crouch, Christine Nichols and Carol Stakenas, Lust 4 LACE celebrates the grand tradition of years past and all manner of delightful debauchery by creating a night featuring explicit, naked, juicy, tasty, slippery, slimy, crunchy, gooey, sexy, voyeuristic, fetishistic live action animated narrative squishy hand-made video, live art and musical performance--DJ sets by John Tejada, Henry Self and Robert Crouch--not to mention kinky crafts with JP Craft Captain sponsored by Babeland and delectable libations by Stone Brewing Co.

Featuring brand new and rarely seen explicit videos and performances from Southern California artists including: Buck Angel, Skip Arnold, Jordan Biren, Squeaky Blonde, David Burns, Peter Caine, Franco Castilla, Mark B. Chamness, Charong Chow, Jennifer Cohen, Geoff Cordner, Michael Dee, Dino Dinco, Willia Drew, Zachary Drucker, Martin Durazo, Micol Hebron, Tyler Hubby, Bryan Jackson, Kadet Kuhne, Darin Klein, Lauren Lavitt, Matt Lipps, Selene Luna, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Eon McKai, Julie Orser, Julianna (JP) Parr, Kathryne Layne Paxton, Barry Pett, Eva Posey, Dustin Robertson, Margie Schnibbe, Mark Cosmo Segurson, Thairin Smothers, Vena Virago, Austin Young, Carlos Zamora, and more.

LUST 4 LACE part of the LACE LIVE! commissioning series. Throughout 2008 LACE is developing projects to celebrate LACE’s rich history, inspire heightened usage of its archival holdings, promote exploration of contemporary art in Los Angeles since 1978.

Be our MYSPACE valentine!!

Download the Lust for LACE press release here.

This public art project, an ice cream truck-turned-mobile-karaoke-unit, was deployed throughout Los Angeles to unite people in a collective quest to perform and record new versions of pop songs using the vernacular of ice cream truck music. Karaoke Ice introduced people to the playful ways in which technology can be used to give voice to personal and collective concerns, as well as enable meaningful social interaction between groups, both large and small.

Click here for more information.

THE TOUR
Breaking out from its LACE Hollywood headquarters, the Karaoke Ice tour will visit an array of distinct neighborhoods across Los Angeles. Lucci and Remedios will make daytime and evening appearances at a variety of public spaces that encourage social gathering. Come and join the tour and rediscover Los Angeles through Karaoke! Click here for a more detailed schedule.

Download Karaoke Ice press release.

Shared Women is an exhibition that is dependent on cronyism, feminism and nepotism. We are supposed to be doing it for the love of the craft, for the love of humankind, for the love of the planet but we are not. We sleep with each other, inspire, plot, plan, respond, complain, collaborate, and analyze. We reorganize and reaffirm our histories every few years, culling histories from 'the women' and 'the gays,' from outsiders now insiders. This is a gay feminist show that picks up the tools of our mothers and refashions them to seduce and influence each other. Maybe some artists in this show have slept their way to the middle. Maybe some are using that bridge called my back, but all are creating conscientious contemporary feminist art that needs to be seen by more than the "communities" that form around alternative venues, ideologies, and shared women. Welcome to our dirty commerce.

Download Art Forum review (May 2007)
Download Artillery review (May 2007)

ARTISTS

A.L. Steiner
Aisha Burns
Amy Adler
Ashley Reid
Carrie Moyer
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
Edie Fake
Ellie Murphy
Erica Vogt
Daphne Fitzpatrick
Emily Roysdon
Eve Fowler
GB Jones
Goodie B Wiseman
Ginger Brooks Takahashi
Jeanine Oleson
JD Samson
K8 Hardy
Kathe Burkhardt
Leidy Churchman
Lindsay Brant
Lisi Raskin & Aaron Brewer
Math Bass
Nicola Tyson
Nicole Eisenman
Paige Gratland
Sheila Pepe
Shannon Ebner
Sharon Hayes
Suzanne Wright
The Third Leg
Ulrike Mueller

PERFORMERS

Marriage
Edie Fake and Dewayne Sleightweight
Taisha Paggett

FILM PROGRAM

Chicks on Speed
Deborah Schamoni
Emily Roysdon
Eve Fowler
Heather Cassils
James Ingrid Pei-Mun Tsang
Jennifer Reeves & M.M. Serra
Michelle Dizon
robbinschilds
Stanya Kahn + Harry Dodge
Tara Mateik

KAPITALIST KIOSK

many many artists multiples

Celebrating the grand tradition of years past, we're once again hosting our infamous St. Valentine's Day bash, and we're doing it in decadent style.

Join us on Saturday, the 17th of February 2007, for a night filled with DJ sets, live music, entertainment, kinky crafts and all manner of delightful debauchery. We'll be featuring videos from ARTSLUT, and just wait till you see what other sorts of sexy surprises are up our sleeves...!

8-9pm: Erotic readings by Brian Blanchfield, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson and Matias Viegener

9-10pm: ARTSLUT rare vintage handmade fetish videos.
See below for a complete playlist!

Throughout The Night:

    * TrashBand
    * Felis Stella "Kiss Me"
    * Naughty Michelle Aston
    * DJ sets by Robert Crouch and Dino Dinco
    * JP Craft Captain's Craft Night presents Extra Kinky Crafts: Hosted by the Off Ramp Girls

» Check back for the latest info on performers and special guests! «

Curated by David Burns and Margie Schnibbe (aka Vena Virago).
Special thanks to our sponsors, Babeland, Echo Park Film Center, IZZE Beverage Company and Stone Brewing Co.

PROCEEDS BENEFIT the LACE Video Archive, a crucial resource to the history of art-making post 1978 in Los Angeles. Join us in celebrating LA's rich legacy of creative production, LACE's unforgettable part in that history and ringing in its feisty future!

About ARTSLUT:
The ARTSLUT program is a rare collection of vintage handmade fetish videos curated by David Burns and Bruce Yonemoto. All of the ARTSLUT videos are made by Los Angeles-based artists spanning 30 years to create a provocative playlist of sometimes shocking and often humorous video works. There is a fetish for everyone in the ARTSLUT collection; from early black and white videos using portapaks in the late 1970's, "Enema Bandit" and "WOOF WOOF", to low budget Mini DV ...

LACE is please to announce that for the first time in Los Angeles, the audio-activist organization Ultra-red will host a day-long conference on 1 April 2006, presenting the various activities of its members and working groups. Interrogating a multiple of political and geographic territories, presentations from Ultra-red members will investigate the autonomy of migration in Europe, participatory community-development in East Los Angeles, inquiry-based education strategies in Los Angeles county, organization of the silence around HIV/AIDS in North America, and the dialogue between militant sound investigations, popular education and autonomy politics.

Presentations by Ultra-red members Elizabeth Blaney, Manuela Bojadzijev, Pablo Garcia, Dont Rhine, Robert Sember and Leonardo Vilchis will make manifest the various analyses around political subjectivity, the role of education in political organizing and the problematics of art in the context of organizing. Allies of Ultra-red will then be asked to respond to ideas raised in the initial round of presentations ­ challenging the perspectives of Ultra-red members. The day-long event will conclude with breakout discussions with audience members to further consider ideas and issues raised in the presentations. Confirmed respondents include Simmi Ghandi (Garment Workers Center); Susanne Lang (kein.org); Jackie Leavitt (UCLA, School of Public Policy); Emily Roysdon (LTTR); Walt Senterfit (Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project); and David Thorne (The Speculative Archive). Ultra-red member Eddie Peel will perform audio interventions throughout the event.

The workshop is open to the public for artists, community organizers, and anyone interested in strategizing around the intersection between critical art practice and political intervention.

About Ultra-red In 1994, two AIDS activists working with the Hollywood-based needle exchange, Clean Needles Now, launched the sound-art collaboration Ultra-red. Ultra-red assumed as its starting place the specific possibilities for art and activism within the sound recording of social spaces. The dual identities of Ultra-red's founders -- that ...

Voiceovers is a series of performances, readings and screenings exploring the voice as a physical utterance and carrier of meaning rather than a tool of language to be learned and controlled.

In the Gallery

5 October through 6 November
Chuck Jones : 3 Isolation Studies and The Butthole Tree

Chuck Jones plays with the nooks, crannies, gurgles, burbs, tangs, foibles, and prejudices that make us human. His Isolation Studies cut our language to its raspy ingredients. Jones makes apparent the repetitions that underlay our speaking; more so, he also reveals the traumas that make necessary human communication. This is especially apparent in regards to the Loveline Isolation Studies, where those who call in, mostly teenagers, expose their raw need for contact, and then sadly met by the aloof, sardonic nature of the hosts. In The Butthole Tree, the folks interviewed go through a litany of the sounds, body functions, and human frailty that drive a wedge in our ability to communicate with one another. Our prejudices define us and limit us. Chuck Jones enables us to tell who we are.

Born and raised inside the beltway (I-495) of our nations capital, Chuck Jones lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. His Isolation Series has been "featured" on WFMU more than once and this surprised him a great deal and forced him to pay extra for bandwidth use on his website, baby gorilla. Chuck made The Butthole Tree during his graduate program at The School of Art and Design at The University of Illinois where it was received very, very poorly. He currently "teaches" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

9 November through 30 November
Natalie Zimmerman : Therapeutic Spaces and Others

In 1999, Zimmerman sent five different psychiatrists and mental health professionals a tape on which they could record a ...

LACE is pleased to present Taking a Bullet, a solo exhibition of recent works by Los Angeles-based artist Joe Sola, organized by Karl Erickson, Program Coordinator, and consulting curator Irene Tsatsos.

The exhibition will kick-off at the opening reception with a one-night performance titled "Film Actors Make Conceptual Art." Here Sola acts as director, requesting four Hollywood actors to use provided materials to create artworks live onstage; the results of which will be on view throughout the exhibition. Sola will also present the video work, "Studio Visit," a compilation of meetings inside the artist's studio with an international cast of museum curators and gallerists; a screening at the Egyptian Theatre of the 35mm film "Army Ranger Reaching for New Spirit Warrior (from the Mankind Project) Near Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles," a meditation on the grand narratives of Hollywood cinema and the fantasies that support them; and a new series of watercolors inspired by coming-of-age films.

Armed with strategies of seduction, including humor, beauty, and the occasional jolt of spectacle, Sola's artworks explore the problems we face when navigating between the stylized images we consume from Hollywood film and the residue of them that we take with us.

Taking a Bullet is Sola's first solo exhibition, which will travel to the Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, in 2006, and it is accompanied by a 64-page catalog to be made available through our website.

Joe Sola's work has been exhibited internationally in Mexico, England, Switzerland, Spain, and Cuba. Sola's second solo exhibition will be at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH in 2006. His most recent group exhibitions (all 2005) include 'Rogue Wave', LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, Landmarks. Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts, OR, and Still Things Fall from the Sky, Evanston ...